Word Meanings - UNYOKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses." Shak. 2. To part; to disjoin; to disconnect. Shak.

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• UNYOKE
  1. To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses." Shak. 2. To part; to disjoin; to disconnect. Shak.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DISJOINTED
  Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• YOUTHFUL
  Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh;
• UNYOKED
  1. Not yet yoked; not having worn the yoke. 2. Freed or loosed from a yoke. 3. Licentious; unrestrained. Shak.
• STEERSMATE
  One who steers; steersman. Milton.
• DISJOIN
  To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. Windmill Street consisted
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• DISJOINTLY
  In a disjointed state. Sandys.
• STEERSMAN
  One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel. Milton.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• UNLOOSE
  To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.